Tristan und Isolde finale scene conducted by Bernstein

[witjunkie]

Some things are simply too beautiful to describe. Thank you for posting this.

[johnalexanderberry]

An excellent interpretation of Wagner's original score of Tristan und Isolde by conductor Leonard Bernstein.

[grandmagrumpy]

How could anyone put this down on paper? Genius!

[dasteufelhund]

Thank you.

[MrGunterguerrero]

Heavenly !

[SPLINTER581]

En dirigent som kunde tolka all musik. han kunde dess själ!!

[lundilar]

A cosmic achievement...Wagner and Bernstein - two immortals forever linked. When we are dead, these two will continue to live on forever in glory

[piccisloud]

I wish the sound quality was better :o/ beautiful performance.

[Jesrama1]

Lenny's da best

[blanquitafiel]

Una obra maestra, muy grandissimo...Y Senor Bernstein.... splendido! Estoy llorando, ahora ya....  Muchas gracias!

[bui60]

stupendo!!!!

[nunesamaro09]

Wagner was a complete genius...

[redbeagle100]

I agree with you Dionysosable....Bernstein was an incredible man.

[FernyBass007]

THERE'S NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE THIS VIDEO!!!

[thaman708]

That was really beautiful

[metalattitude]

Awesome

[CharmedLifeNY]

absolut schön. Ich bin auf Long Island, aber ich muß beyruth bald, damit ich am Festival teilnehmen zu besuchen. lang lebe Bavaria! Michael aus New York am inn Hudson! hehhe

[IrvinIam]

I didn't know Leonard Bernstein was anti-semitic. Sad, indeed!

[Invisus944]

@IrvinIam you better be trolling

[IrvinIam]

@Invisus944 Not trolling. Just joking. Re: Wagner's reputed anti-Semitism. Esoteric humour. Hah Hah Hah

[jepcorp]

Karajan and Bernstein...MASTERS of this work---both conducted this piece in the same manner.

[rumpwrestler]

@jepcorp Both Karajan and Berstein are second rate. There are REAL Tristan conductors... but not these two.

[jepcorp]

@rumpwrestler Which conductors would you suggest for Wagner's music?

[divine604]

@jepcorp Furtwängler, Solti....

[twooffour]

@rumpwrestler

Zubin Mehta for sure.

[mm88smack]

Arte allo stato puro.

[michaels7]

Hard to beleive such a nasty anti-semite could write such gorgeous music. Good for Lennie to go beyond Wager's viciousness and treat art as art, and what wonderful

art it is. Love at its peak.

[karla48000]

¡sublime!

[Wook5ter]

This makes me cry everytime I hear it. I love the passion. xx

[calips80]

inesprimibile

[tompaxkur]

goose bumps abound!

[mrMYSTERIUM]

swirling waves of passion oh god so good

[Siberiaeterna]

Wonderful composer,wonderful orchestra,wonderful music,wonderful-and sexy-conductor,wonderful moment.THANKS!

[visualmusicshow]

Was there when he did concert in Symphony Hall, Boston and his Norton Lectures at Harvard. These are cherished memories.

[Dionysosable]

This is the Finest version of this piece I ever heard !! Bernstein is just Incredible. What an Unbelievable musical power this man got. He is the greatest Classical conductor that there ever was. And he fits perfectly with wagner. Beautiful Performance.!!!!!!

[yooperlooper]

i was just thinking the exact same thing myself! :-)

[ThePiano1991]

@Dionysosable I LOVE Bernstein he was a brilliant man, such a clever man and brilliant at everything he did. He gave the world sooooo much!

[cjnomacen]

5:22 quiero llorarrrr

[SeanMcHugh02]

Good grief, in the zone or what; the orgasmic climax is a shattering as it gets here.

[kelbo61]

Hallelujah! Someone else "gets it" like me!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Glencanon4au]

It's incredible, the intuitive genius that Wagner posessed. And yet he had the soul of a human, all-too-human, being.

[kombelpeter]

Nice reference to Nietzsche!

[zippitydoobeedoo]

Bersteins passion brings out the best in his musicians and any piece he conducts. Amazing how he just becomes the music, you can almost see it swirling inside of him.

[chermaster85]

Classical music in its finest way. The vocal verison is actually more beautiful

[jlaurson]

man, was he ever conducting his own feelings. :-)

[responsenow]

Thank You, Lennie

[24dcambridge]

"ecstatic".....

[yooperlooper]

Music from Heaven! Beauty beyond words. Thank-you!

[poti0909]

ただひたすら素晴らしい！！

何て壮大で美しい演奏でしょう！

私にはこの大曲が、たった一本の旋律に聴こえます。

この魂が、永遠に光り輝き続けて欲しいと、願うばかりです。

[jorgealbertobaron]

GRAN OBRA DE WAGNER

[PPanncho]

Lenny logra que no echemos de menos la voz de Isolda, bravo.

[magie1111]

Sublime!

[Ulysses61]

Lenny's face expresses it all. A genius!

[1warnerguy]

I still can't get over Bernstein's face as he interprets the passion. GOD!

[violetavalery]

Yeah! You´re right! Thanks for making me notice this!

[godofmusic17]

Actually this is the orchestral version of the Liebestod, which is an extraction from the opera (we are hearing the end of the Prelude to Act I, then the final aria (which is only part of the final scene) without Isolde. The opera is not constructed this way, Wagner created this extraction to advertise the opera in concert halls.

[ronnie8141]

Havent checked if this is true, but if it is, bravo for letting us know.

[1warnerguy]

Magnificent! Bernstein: GOD!

WAGNER: BEYOND GOD!!

What a beautiful version!

[aptcore59]

Glorious...amazing.

[edcassells]

Wow. Awesome. If you like this version, please also check out 'Blake Richardson conducts Liebestod' here on YouTube. You will be amazed. And the most compelling Liebestod is sung by Waltraud Meier. Look it up here and be mesmerized and broken.

[larrykeegan]

this is proof of YOU-TUBE! I worship wagner's music, I love Bernstein - but this is a moment that was priceless !!

[whalewhalewhale]

ahhhhhhh goosebumps.

[modecsaj]

Our Aesthetics teacher told us that this was pure sex! I can't stop listening to it... Wonderful!

[dasteufelhund]

This version is the best that I have ever, EVER heard. Thank you.

[dasteufelhund]

This piece is the perfect reminder of why musicians slave hours in practice and sacrifice their time and devote their life to music.

[judgebur]

One of the most moving pieces of music ever written! Really moves you in your heart and gut!

[ChocoGnomesAreEVIL]

i wonder if there's anywhere where i could find the 'Asinine' part

[clskmstg]

oh my... 5:24 - what response. Brilliant.

[dasteufelhund]

what a glorious torment....

[mgperc]

This is the end of the prelude and the liebestod. The liebestod is the finale of the opera and has a soprano part that is commonly left out for orchestra concerts. It's pretty common practice to play the prelude and leibstode in one arrangement. I have a recording of Szell doing the same thing and have seen Essa-Pekka Salonen do it w/LA Phil. Not sure if Wagner intended for it to be this way.

[Makarious]

It's the closing passage.  "Finale" offers a clue.

[Kdbaby03]

This cant be from the last scene of Tristan and isolde the movie..???

[WOLFGANGSCHWEIZER]

It´s from the opera of Richard Wagner, after the verse epos of the German writer Gottfried von Strassburg,1210 AC (almost 20000 verses in middle high German). But I guess this is the beginning, the ouverture, not the end.

[andrewgorny]

I'm positive this is the ending. Though he is paraphrasing the prelude. Does anyone know if it is newly composed arrangements or if it is just the prelude lifted and pasted at the end as well? Or a mix of both?

[NailI3unny]

It is the very end of the prelude and the liebestod. The prelude ends after the bass pizzicati and the liebestod begins right after with the bass clarinet solo in 4.

[andrewgorny]

No, that's a little inferior compared to this :P

[ggarcia1982]

It is the very beginning of the opera and then the end of the last act (Liebestod), when Isolda describes her vision of Tristan risen again and the she dies of grief... please correct me if I am wrong. I love Solti's and Böhm's version!

[andrewgorny]

Well, I only say this because the instrumentation for all the voicings of the tristan chord are incongruent with every edition of the score that I have (which is only 2 editions, but I still stand by the idea that these are the closing motives)

[3tristan]

Bernstein directed here the closing bars of the Prelude and the complete "Verklärung" (or "Liebestod")from "Tristan und Isolde, Eine Handlung" by Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883). The setting of the "Verklärung" is arranged for orchestra alone by Franz Liszt.

[Shota871]

You're absolutely right; this is the final scene (or at least the musical accompaniment) of Richard Wagner's opera based on the legend of the star-crossed lovers.

[betsydog0120]

lenny was and is the greatest!!!! will always LOVE him!!!!!

[Andywolfff]

Just beautiful

[HectorJW2007]

What orchestra is he conducting there?

[muslit]

the boston symphony - i think it was a performance connected with bernstein's harvard lectures in the early 70's -

[grifffinity]

You are correct, it is the BSO. One can clearly see Principle Clarinet Harold Wright and Flute, Doriot Dwyer.

[MiSebastianT]

I love the stylish glasses everyone is wearing.

[iurena]

Bellisimo! el mejor!... nothing else..

[bobemy1]

Beautiful!!nothing else to say.I actually get tears listning to this aria.You guys may think i!m crazy but i always do.Emily

[andrewgorny]

Tristan und Isolde is probably number 1 in my top 5 classical works. You're not alone, there are millions, emily. MILLIONS

[bobemy1]

I get tears,I used to think I was crazy because i get moved to tears,but now i found I!m not alone.thanks for your response Andre

[obromrob]

Grazie per il video. E' stata una grande emozione. Oggi assisterò al Tristano.

[vos42]

Beautiful. Thank you.

[gab1279]

Spellbinding! He really FELT what he conducted, and made the listener as well. My very favorite classical piece, no kidding, and one of America's truly great conductors. Huge thanks for this video.

[muslit]

magnificent

[muslit]

wonderful - the control - amazing -

[IAMLISZT]

Incredible.

[gottyboy]

yeahhHHH!!!!

[Arwald666]

Wonderful!

[lechatnoir45]

Une pure merveille !

[bandinha]

what a emotion!!!! You can feel the Isolda's anguish!!

[skiritz]

Not young Bernstein, but fine bernstein...

[Inseminoid]

Wonderful to watch . I adore Wagner . Bernstein understood the

opera I think , he captures a painful streak here .